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Spoon-a-Lagoon

Mar-a-Lago:Goon Motel.
MAGA-Lardo: Spooner Hell.
     -moral:
Bal- or a- or im-:
'tis all the same to him.

Some Who Lived Here

Some who lived here 
loved to lav.
Lafe, who lav'd here, 
lived to lave.
Some who laved here 
loved to leaf.
(Lief, who leaf'd here, 
lived to loaf.)
Some who loaf'd here 
loved to luffa.
Liv, who luffa'd, 
lived to love.
Some who loved here 
lived to laugh.
None who laugh'd here 
loved to leave.

Brushes with Fuller or The Buckyball Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Afghanistan's amokyball! 
Alack! Iraq's badluckyball!
Why...? Donald's Bride of Chuckyball 
eats Disney’s Donald Duckyball!)

Bolles (Enoch) bowls Enochyballs.
His pinups...? Freakin' f***yballs!
Grand Opera’s Alma Gluckyball 
greets Watson’s Jim 'n' Huckyball.

They'd wallow In the muckyball
sans muck…? That’s Just their luckyball.
A Sauk Chief, Keokukyball, 
beats Iowa's lameduckyball...

...whilst Larry Fine's muklukyball 
heats Curly’s “Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!”yball.

"We'le lunnin’ out o’ ruckybarr," 
breats Chinese Peking Duckybarr!
“'Quack, Quack!' (A doubre cruckybarr...?)
Prease...wish it 'Rotsaruck!'ybarr."

Some sorry sadass'd schmuckyball 
tweets Sherwood's Friar Tuckyball,
who, barfing his upchuckyball,
pees visiting Urukyball.

Ask not, "Which bird goes 'cluck!'yball…?" 
"Eet's hot, ees Juan's X-Puckyball…?"
Nor "Salmagundi’s yuckyball…?" 
(Jeez!! Seize not ‘z’s from ’szzchuhckqeebawll’!)

Socksrates: A Pseudo-Psyllogism with Accompanying Portrait -- Another Composite of Verse & Image in the Ongoing Series "Men of the Cloth"

"Socksrates"
Cotton compression socks 
and chemical marker on canvas
16" x 20"

Socksrates! Socksrates! 

Rocks it in the BCEs.

Orthotics...? Not the expertise 

of Socksrates!

Socksrates! Socksrates! 

No drachma-by-the-dozen geez.

The unexamined life displeas-

es Socksrates.

Socksrates! Socksrates! 

“Know thyself!”’s among Sock's pleas.

Ditto “Let not fascia freeze!" 

(Br-r-r-r-r-r... Socksrates!)

Socksrates! Socksrates! 

Mocks PlateHo* Sock's analyses...?

Herr 'Arristweedle** disagrees 

with Sock's spondees.

Socksrates! Asks Socksrates, 

"Hey, Plateho! Pass that pithos, please."
Still, Doctor Socks possesses keys 

to subsequent philosophies.

     [And now. allow a brief reprise:]

Socksrates! Socksrates! 

Rocks it in the BCEs.

Orthotics...? Not the expertise 

of Socksrates.

 

     * A younger contemporary of Socksrates who 

recorded much of his mentor's teaching. His portrait, 

in Crayolas and paper plates on 16" x 20" canvas, 

appears in the Textile Museum's exhibition 

"Men of the Cloth."
     ** Later Greek philosopher 'Arristweedle's 

portrait, also appearing in that show, is in acrylics 

over a Donegal wool sport coat mounted on 

16" x 20" canvas.

Song of the Bluegrass, Red State Voter

Senator Collins to Leader McConnell

as Sue saunters Senate halls: “So!  

On this witness thing…? You’ve got my vote. But…I want you to 
do me a favor tho’…”

Senator Romney to Senator Mitch

(Mitch be Mitt’s Senatorial bro):

“Re: ‘no witnesses,’ Mitch...? Count me in! But…I want you to 

do me a favor tho’…”

Lisa Murkowski to Leader McConnell:

“l’d not -- for the world! -- be your foe.

As to witnesses, let's us be friends. But…I want you to 

do me a favor tho’…”

Me…? I’d interrogate Leader McConnell:

“I’m hearing this phrase ‘quid pro quo.’

Now I’ve got one for you. Your sweet Senate gig…? Through! ‘Less you 

do me a favor tho’…”

Poetrait of Ulysses Poe

More than wordsmith,

less than poet.

Poetaster…?

Don’t you know it!

The Cheese Stands Alone (But Not Before Spilling the Beans)

Gautama the Buddha briefs Pablo Neruda.
Etudes from Neruda clue Hebrews in Judah.
Judeans have words with one very old Gouda.
The Gouda confesses to you.

The Mother of Jesus files pleas with a rhesus.
The rhesus reports to that chap who makes cheeses.
(What doesn't asphyxiate finally frees us:
the cheeses reveal this to you.) 

The Devil's boy Lucius advises Confucius.
Confucius makes mention to Lyndon LaRouche. (Is
it true that "LaRou," in a sequence of swooshes,
tells you…? Nope: it's roux who does…nu…?

Reeseceipts With Her Spoon: An Anticipant Resume with Accompanying Portrait -- One Composite of Image & Verse in the Ongoing Series "Material Girls"

"Reeseceipts With Her Spoon"
paper purchase vouchers, chemical marker, colored pencils
and a plastic tableware utensil on canvas
16" x 20"

She’d play Mays in September,

play Aprils in June.

She'd play even an August:

Reeseceipts With Her Spoon.

She’d play Eva Peron.*

(She once play’d Lorna Doone.)

Would she play Mrs. Lovett,**

Reeseceipts With Her Spoon...?

     * In "Evita"

     ** In "Sweeney Todd"

Play Eliza in “Hamilton” 

she would...and croon.

Play Christine in “The Phantom”*:

Reeseceipts With Her Spoon.

     * He "...of the Opera"

She'd play Lady Macbeth,

Kate in “Zamung die Shrew'n."

She'd play Juliet, too, would

Reeseceipts With Her Spoon.

She could play Rose in "Gypsy"
though rather'd play June...
or "be great"* as Louise, would
Reeseceipts With Her Spoon.
     * As sung in "Everything's 
Coming Up Roses" from that musical

Mother Cour-…AND the children…?

The whole damn platoon!

One aspiring starlet's

Reeseceipts With Her Spoon.

(More "Reeseceipts" verses 
to come: a work in progress)

Spooner the Cat

Cats in baskets. Meow! Me-e-e-ow-w-w! 
Basques in caskets...? Ciao, Bilbao!
     Moral:
Felix the Catalan's 
throat's all through rattlin.'

Spoonin' with the Stars: Mix & Mae

The mother of cowpoke Tom Mix
is a suicide bomber: Mom ticks!
     Moral:
Bomb! Bomb! (Thankyou, Mom.)
Post "See me" from steamy Mae West:
"All that woo leaves my booty wa-a-a-ay mess'd."
     Moral:
Be careful what you dish for.